Act III
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Act III is the final act of Sam Shepard's play "A Lie of the Mind," in which the drama's psychological and familial tensions reach their climax and resolution.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Act III canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9592822 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Act III Context triple: [A Lie of the Mind, hasPart, Act III]
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Act III
Act III is the final act of Giacomo Puccini’s opera "Turandot," culminating in the famous tenor aria "Nessun dorma" and the resolution of the opera’s central conflict.
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Act III
Act III is the final act of the 19th-century stage comedy "Our American Cousin," historically noted as the portion of the play being performed during Abraham Lincoln’s assassination at Ford’s Theatre.
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Act III
Act III is a central segment of Goethe’s "Faust, Part Two" that dramatizes Faust’s encounter with Helen of Troy, blending classical mythology with German Romanticism.
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Act III
Act III is a dramatic segment of the stage adaptation of John Bunyan’s Christian allegory "The Pilgrim’s Progress," depicting a key phase in the protagonist’s spiritual journey.
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Act III
Act III is the final act of Richard Wagner's opera "Lohengrin," culminating in the revelation of the hero's identity and the tragic resolution of the central vow of silence.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Act III Target entity description: Act III is the final act of Sam Shepard's play "A Lie of the Mind," in which the drama's psychological and familial tensions reach their climax and resolution.
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Act III
Act III is the final act of Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prize–winning play "A Delicate Balance," in which the tensions and emotional conflicts within a suburban family reach their climax and resolution.
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Act III
Act III is the final act of Thornton Wilder’s play "The Skin of Our Teeth," depicting the Antrobus family’s post-apocalyptic struggle to rebuild civilization and affirm human resilience.
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Act III
Act III is the final act of Richard Wagner's opera "Lohengrin," culminating in the revelation of the hero's identity and the tragic resolution of the central vow of silence.
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Act III
Act III is the final act of the 19th-century stage comedy "Our American Cousin," historically noted as the portion of the play being performed during Abraham Lincoln’s assassination at Ford’s Theatre.
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Act III
Act III is the final act of Giacomo Puccini’s opera "Turandot," culminating in the famous tenor aria "Nessun dorma" and the resolution of the opera’s central conflict.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | act of a play ⓘ |
| basedOnCharactersFrom | A Lie of the Mind ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Sam Shepard ⓘ |
| dramaticStructureRole | denouement ⓘ |
| follows |
Act II (A Lie of the Mind)
ⓘ
linked to:
A Lie of the Mind
|
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
family drama ⓘ psychological drama ⓘ |
| hasMainTheme |
dysfunctional family relationships
ⓘ
familial conflict ⓘ identity ⓘ psychological tension ⓘ trauma ⓘ |
| hasWorkTitle | Act III ⓘ |
| isFinalActOf | A Lie of the Mind ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | theatre ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
climax
ⓘ
resolution ⓘ |
| partOf | A Lie of the Mind ⓘ |
| positionInSeries | 3 ⓘ |
| precedes | none (final act) ⓘ |
| setIn | rural American West ⓘ |
| workChronologyWithinPlay | conclusion ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Act III Description of subject: Act III is the final act of Sam Shepard's play "A Lie of the Mind," in which the drama's psychological and familial tensions reach their climax and resolution.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Act III